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Site title: The Misfit Farmer - agrarian misadventures, feats of agricultural exaggeration, plus lessons from a hard-knocking tractor
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“Stephen, come quick--look out the window!” Natalie said. I walked briskly to the kitchen window, looked out, and saw Jack sniffing around and investigating the perimeter of the barn.
“Some things never change,” I chuckled. Natalie rushed out the backdoor.
“Jack! Jack! Come here, Jack!” she called. Jack’s ears perked up, then the little four-legged collection of f...
To pay for my own personal forays into farming, I work for NC State Extension with the NC FarmLink program, a statewide program focused on farmland access and farm transition issues. In some presentations, I’ll lead by showing the following quote on a slide: “People who do not work the land have come to own it, and people who work the land have come to be increasingly unable ...
Growing up, my grandma owned a small auto parts store in South Carolina. It was right beside a truck stop, and it did a good business before the interstate started siphoning traffic away. Even now, I can still smell the stockroom, with its tall aisles of rubber belts and hoses. I thought it was fun to sweep the floor between the aisles with the push broom, after which my gran...
During the slow, dog days of summer, the first helicopters start circling over pastures, getting fresh footage for the nightly news. Sometimes they’ll fly over a whole herd grazing a hillside, which is sure to spike ratings for the lead story, “Farmer Gored by Bull: Second Attack into Two Weeks.” Sometimes they’ll even get a shot of cows stampeding toward a feed bunk in a so-...